Mario No Longer Voiced By Longtime Actor Charles Martinet--Including In Mario Wonder

@id0ntkn0w7:

I don't know if you were paying attention. well, I didn't exactly said that i agree he couldn't pull off playing the lead., i clearly said that he probably would not have been able to do it. I use the word (PROPBALY). The word (Probably) means that he may or may not have been able to do it.

The reason why i use the word Probably, was because i thought all he does is small voice samples and nothing major like that. I didn't know that has done bigger things than that, so i was unsure about it.

I also said that I would have preferred to see someone else do the voice of Mario, even if it wasn't Charles Martinet but someone other than Chriss Pratt.

It was never going to happen. Like i stated before, when you are doing a big movie like that, you want a big Hollywood super star as the lead voice and someone that will help sell your product. Chales was not that and Pratt was that. Is just that they pick the wrong person with Chriss Pratt. There are other Hollywood stars out there, that most likely would have been able to do a better job than Pratt.

@ives74: You're one of those people who can't actually engage with hypotheticals I've read about aren't you? Can you tell me how you would have felt yesterday if you didn't eat breakfast?

In any case, you said that they couldn't have made a successful Mario movie with a silent protagonist. I presented the case that this is not necessarily true with a viable alternative that could have worked as a hypothetical. However you are dead fixated on the actual script that was written and that this reality MUST be maintained, thus failing to even engage with the hypothetical.

Are you aware of the Netflix live action One Piece adaptation? The mangaka retained massive authority on the production to ensure that it accurately portrayed his story. This meant that at a number of points he forced a rewriting of the script and a reshooting of several scenes until it met with his approval. This could have easily been the case with Mario, considering that Nintendo was taking a gamble with the movie. The fact that they surrendered so much control was probably a distancing tactic so they could ignore the failure more easily, like they did with that 90's Mario Movie, but I digress. The point is that they could have exercised similar controls on their IP if they wanted to DESPITE the existence of the script.

Also I reject the notion that you would have to make massive changes to the script to have Mario be a mostly silent protagonist. I've stated this several times and you haven't refuted it. Just have other people exposit for him like they do in Paper Mario, and make judicious use of pantomime.

Lastly, I've stated several times that I was ok with the movie, but sad that they chose to ax the Mario voice we all know and love in unceremonious fashion as they did.